The Association for Animal Welfare Advancement conferences are FREE for veterinary students!
AAWA is opening its virtual conference doors to veterinary students FREE of charge! It’s an especially exciting time for veterinary students to be able to attend conferences and gain an insiders peek at the changing landscape of animal welfare.
Value-First Storytelling
Understanding that letting go of the way things were is a process, even if the way things were weren’t serving us, helps us prepare for the ride and know when we need to act vs when we simply need to hold on.
Cha Cha Cha Changes
From where we stand (6 ft apart) today, we know overwhelm doesn’t have to be the norm. We know that our community will step up when we make room for them. We’ve seen the other side, a place where we operate within capacity and proactive policy making replaces reactive decision-making. We have felt the difference of a day that was predicted, scheduled, and managed versus another day that was survived.
Communication Through Transition
The role of strategic communication during change management cycles is a popular topic any day, but the shift of our world on its axis has propelled this discussion to the front of the interwebs. There’s a plethora of sound guidance to be had and, for once, an almost unanimous agreement: A good change management strategy requires a detailed plan that considers each of your stakeholder groups and addresses the fears associated with their particular investment.
ICYMI (In Case You Missed It): 3,000 new foster homes in 6 months! – How Did They Do It?
Former KSMP shelter medicine resident Dr. Cristie Kamiya is at it again! Find out how she transformed her shelter in the face of crisis, recruited over 3,000 new foster homes and leveraged her volunteer talent to get it done.
Wrapping it up and Going Home! – Live Webinar this Thursday 9/3/20 – Maddie’s Fund/Million Cat Challenge
Our industry is changing fast; early-adopting shelters are already reaping the benefits of modernizing their adoption programs. Online meetups, adoption appointments, automated scheduling, Facetiming cats and virtual paloozas: It’s a whole new matchmaking world out there!
In this webinar, the fifth and final of a five-part series presented in partnership with Royal Canin and hosted by Maddie’s Fund, we’ll learn how to take our matchmaking game from the adoption floor to the worldwide web.
Million Cat Challenge: Kitten Care in the Shelter – August 27, 2020
Join us for the fourth webinar in our free five-part kitten management series presented in partnership with Royal Canin and hosted by Maddie’s Fund.
Million Cat Challenge: Foster Greatness! – Live Webinar – This Thursday 8/20/20
We all know fosters make the world go round! This Thursday the Million Cat challenge is presenting the third webinar in the five-part kitten management webinar series: Foster Greatness. Join us as we dive in to the heart of community-centric sheltering: foster care.
Gone are the days of handwritten applications and in-person volunteer orientations. Foster programs are evolving at lightning speed, leveraging new technologies to give their program a digital makeover. If you’d like to recruit, train and onboard volunteers quicker, better, faster, then grab your foster coordinators and a seat in this action-packed webinar now.
Join us on Thursday, August 20 at 12n Pacific / 3pm Eastern for a 60-minute presentation and plenty of time for Q&A with Dr. Sara Pizano.
This Thursday (8/13/20): Support for Kittens in the Field
The second webinar in the Million Cat Challenge five-part webinar series is this Thursday, August 13th, 2020.
Join us to learn more about how you can provide support outside your shelter walls and reduce the number of kittens coming through your shelter.
Find out what field officers, volunteers and fosters are doing to give kittens the best chance of survival while streamlining operations and expanding safety nets outside shelter walls.
8/6/20: Million Cat Challenge and Royal Canin Team Up to Launch Five-Part Webinar Series on Kitten Management
Join experts as they dive into new and emerging kitten intake philosophies and discuss when kittens are best served outside shelters walls, streamlining your foster program, providing mom and kitten support, pediatric spay and neuter and successful adoption strategies that will send these tiny cats out the front door two by two.
